Episode 2769 CWSA 03/05/25

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today so I guess if you have the app I think it's only on the app the the special app for grock it's free the voice mode so you can have conversations with it but you can set it for what kind of voice you're getting back so you can set it for an assistant mode where it's you know just kind of friendly and healthy but it's got sexy mode and it's got romantic mode and it's got argumentative mode and I'm trying to figure out how to make them all work at the same time so it feels like a wife all right well I'll let I'll let that just sit there for a while but uh looks fun it's worth a try um I don't know if it's happened yet but Commerce Secretary Howard lutnick who I'm liking a lot by the way have you heard lotnik talk you know there's some people that you just hear them talk and you say are you really that smart you talk like a smart person lotnik is one of those when he talks I think huh I can see how you got rich makes sense you're pretty smart anyway he's uh he's saying that the tariffs on Mexico and uh and Canada probably are going to be resolved meaning that there'll be some kind of Middle Ground meaning there's some kind of accommodation meaning we'll figure out how to work with each other uh as soon as today now in theory that should have been good for the stock markets but we'll see there's a lot of roing going on so in theory um the the tariffs which were big 25% on everything but uh energy I think um they were really just to get some kind of uh little extra energy for an agreement especially about stopping the fenal trade so one could imagine if Canada and or Mexico said wait wait in stud of these terrible tariffs how about we do a little bit more stopping that fenel and then that would be something you could negotiate with So in theory we'll have some kind of accommodation there but you it might be optimistic to say it's going to happen today but lotnik I think was warning the markets to not you know don't incorporate this in some kind of a permanent situation so that was exactly the right thing to do he might be off on how quickly they can resolve it but uh maybe not you know maybe it's just one day it's possible meanwhile the premier of Ontario in Canada has uh can Elon musk's starlink I I feel like companies keep punishing or countries keep punishing themselves well we're going to cut off our own access to really inexpensive internet take that all right okay uh it's also funny to me that people think that it's obvious that Elon Musk has some way to monetize being involved this involved in the Trump Administration if I can give you any business um advice at all it goes like this associating yourself with Trump pretty much guarantees you lose half of your Market nobody who understands anything about business would have said you know what you know what would be really good for business is if I associate with you know half of the country instead of the whole country there was no way that must didn't understand that it would be risky just to throw in for once it doesn't even matter matter which side it would work either way but I feel like the Democrats don't understand enough about business to know that if you're good at business you wouldn't do this for business reasons the only the only way it makes sense for Elan to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country which given that it's America it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world elon's trying to save the world now if you say oh I think he's only trying to save the world because he'll make money I say you're a freaking idiot saving the world is is good enough you don't need a you don't need a reason on top of it I'm going to save the world but I figured out a way to get a grift out of this I've got a schem working that once I've saved the world I think I'm going to make Revenue with my existing companies yes that's exactly what he's going to do he's he's going to make Revenue in his existing companies if he can save the whole freaking world because it is an exist ential threat and doge is the only thing that has any chance of preserving America America doesn't have a chance this is an existential risk the debt and there's only one person who has the balls and maybe the capability we hope to actually make a difference on the debt so so there's that anyway Trump gave his big speech which is not a state of the union because he's only just got there so I guess the first one is more just a speech so uh he pushed the Golden Age theme which I love and he pushed the common sense Revolution that he says is wait I just saw something go by all right um and uh the common sense re ution that he says is now part of a global movement now I love that because it's really hard for anybody in any country to be opposed to Common Sense in order to be opposed to Common Sense you'd have to I what dress all in pink and wear stupid signs okay Democrats can be opposed to common sense because they they literally found a way to agree with only the 20% issues where 80% of the country is on one side but they're like oh no we can't be on Trump's side with the 80% of the public so watch this and uh I guess Trump talked about energy and all the energy stuff he's doing and um something about egg prices have you noticed that everybody wants egg prices to go down but nobody has any idea how that would happen now I get the energy prices would be good for everything but is Trump doing anything for egg prices directly I'm not aware of it do the Democrats have a alternative egg plan you know what I'd love I'd love for Trump to say you know what it really is hard to get egg prices down uh would any of you Democrats like to work with me to come up with a egg price reduction plan because I'd love to see your thinking what no oh the pink dresses is is that how you bring the egg prices down no no is it the little signs that you hold up is it the weird protests is it uh funding Charities that we've never heard of in other countries what what is your plan for bringing down the egg prices so if I were Trump I would see if he could get the Democrats to commit to an egg price reduction scheme and then he can react to it and say you know what it's actually a pretty good idea let's do it or that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life there's got to be a better way so let me let me put this challenge out to the public and I'd love to see Trump uh do something like it just ask the public what would you do uh actually maybe this is even an Elon Musk thing or maybe it could start with him how do you reduce egg prices I mean have more chickens and you know the obvious stuff but is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices subsidize them I don't know I love to hear it and then uh the other thing that was a big surprise to me and the speech was Trump's going big on American ship building we'll talk about that separately um but here's what I loved Trump starts his speech by saying quote I could find a cure to the most devastating disease a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answer the answers to the greatest economy in the history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest level ever recorded and these people sitting right here will not clap will not stand and serve will not cheer for these astronomical achievements now these are imaginary achievements but and and then he went on uh so Democrats sitting before me just just this one night why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America for the good of our nation let's work together and let's truly make America great again now obviously they weren't going to do that because they came there to be uh protesters and you know ruining his flow uh but what he did was he he framed them he basically framed them so instead of I'm giving a speech and they think I'm a big old liar and so they're trying to trying to make a point he framed them as not even able to agree with things you everybody should agree with now do you think that they proved at sometime during the night that the Democrats prove him right by showing that there were things that anybody should agree with just anybody should agree with and did they disagree with that one thing that anybody should have agreed with yes they did they fell exactly into his frame they fell into the frame of finding the one thing the one thing that nobody nobody could disagree with they found a way and it was when he introduced the 13-year-old boy who had survived um I guess brain cancer as a kid you know had a real tough tough start in life but the little kid who and it's important to the rest of the story was black and is still black and uh the kids there with his father who looked awesome looked like I I assume that was his father who looked like you know just this great supportive dad who'd gotten him to this point and I guess the son really like police officers wanted to be one and I think he'd gotten some honorary you know police officer badges or something from various police departments who were just being supportive of the fact that he just loved police and uh so Trump comes up with this idea of having him in the audience um telling his story and there's nothing political about it it's literally just awesome kid survived a ter horrible thing loves the police and the police showing love back so so uh Trump announces that they're going to make him part of the Secret Service now obviously these are ceremonial kind of positions and uh I I think he had that new head of the Secret Service go up there and and give him basically an ID you know like a little wallet ID thing that says he's part of the Secret Service and then there was a moment that was the best moment so I think the kid's name was DJ and the kid just looks at it he's just like blown away it's like the happiest thing it's just what he loves and he just goes in for the hug he just grabs this this guy you never met this uh you know this white guy who's just the head of the Secret Service I believe and the 13-year-old just grabs him and hugs him like hugs him cheek to cheek and and then you see the the uh the head of the Secret Service I guess I guess that's who he was if you know his name give it to me I'll say it um he's loving it like it's just this moment where there just two human beings having a genuine hug and it was great so what do you think the Democrats did to that it was really the ultimate trap it was the ultimate ultimate trap there was this little moment was first of all it you know it was contrived contrived in the sense that Trump knew that if you put these elements together it's going to be an emotional impact so it was contrived in that way but it was also completely genuine in the sense that the emotions of the kid and the emotions of the the gentleman who gave him the uh the Little Secret Service ID these those were real emotions and there was spontaneity to it and it was genuine it was authentic even even given this the setup which was artificial uh Shan kin is that the name of the uh Secret Service guy yeah so it this beautiful moment so uh then on MSNBC yeah you switch to MSNBC and they're they're trying to find something wrong with it and uh Rachel madow she's she's got some damn thing she she's acting like Trump's taking credit for curing the kid's brain cancer so she's all disgusted 80% of the entire country is like oh my God that was good like that's a moment that's what I like to see and they've got to be on the other side of it and so uh what did Nicole Wallace say I have to find the Nicole Wallace thing I'm jumping ahead here uh uh it was my favorite moment anyway she had some complaints about it we'll get to that Nicole Wallace um so now I don't think that this is the most important part of the speech but it was hilarious how he he set the frame and set the Trap and then they fell right into it anyway um then uh representative green who's a Democrat that you might recognize as the one who always wants to impeach Trump on his first day of office so I think he's put he's put in for a bunch of impeachment acts um but he gets up and I guess he started yelling but he wasn't microphone so on video it didn't look like he was was making much of a dent but he was he didn't he refused to sit down and then I'm watching a Speaker of the House Johnson who's sitting sitting behind the president for the speech with JD Vance in the back and uh Johnson you you you could see him getting ready for action because it would be his job to you know get order in the house and and so I see him reach over and he turns his microphone toward himself and I'm like oh it's on it's on this is going to be good and I I was more interested in how he did it like you know could he pull it off in a dignified way you know could he get you know Green to sit down and what I saw was even better than that like he waited and then he he he gaves in and it looked like Trump was sort of expecting it and so Trump stands back and and just lets it happen uh and uh then representative Johnson you gbls in and then he reads he reads something that he had prepared obviously that said something like you know the the members will show decorum and in the the room blah blah blah and that didn't make a difference so green just kept yelling and then then he Johnson said uh you know essentially uh if if we can't restore order you know the sergeant in army will be asked to restore order now that kind of means escort him out but uh that didn't take so so he had to do it again and eventually the sergeant sergeants at arm I guess came down and just sort of gently guided representative green out who and I'm sure green was expecting it because he you know he was pushing it to try to get the maximum effect but here's what I like the best um I figured out who would be the best casting for the next Starship Captain for Star Trek you know there's always another Star Trek spin-off but representative Johnson he has the Perfect Starship Captain voice it's just such a command voice I just absolutely love to hear him talk but we usually hear them talk about boring you know budget things and diplomatic things and stuff but when he when he had to talk um I won't say like a tough guy but rather like a captain he he talked like a captain it was matter of fact but it was powerful it was forceful he didn't leave any wiggle room you know there was no no upt talk in it he basically just laid it out this is what's going to happen if you do it again you'll be removed it was excellent it was just it was just great TV by the way the whole thing was great TV I don't think I've ever anticipated one of these types of speeches as much as this uh if you were watching from the very beginning like every there seemed to be like a almost an electricity in the air I was watching a little CNN before it went live you know before Trump actually showed up and even CNN seemed to be buzzing with some kind of energy that wasn't typical certainly wouldn't have had with Biden so then Melania does her her uh entry and I'm thinking to myself when was the last time a first lady did an entry that was that perfect for the show just sort of perfect like she she just has that elegance and Grace kind of thing going on that's unusual so she's perfect the the setup is perfect the lighting the room the camera work uh the just the anticipation the buzzing and then Trump comes in and and starts working and there's this protester with Lil sign uh one one of the pink dressed women's you know gets up so that As Trump has to work his way through the aisle to get up to the podium um you're forced to see her with her little sign and her sign says this is not normal on this little white sign but the funny thing is it looked like it could be talking about herself as much as Trump so that part was funny yeah this is not normal I I guess some Republican grabbed it out of her hand and and just tossed it or something I don't even know if that's legal can you grab something out of somebody's hand but I I didn't see it on camera they're grabbing out of the hand part but that was funny uh and I didn't I at first I didn't know why Trump gave the stink eye to somebody because he was he was sort of glad handing and saying hi to everybody and then he did this look to the right and just gave this look and then looks away and I think he was looking at The Pink Suit lady anyway um what else happened so basically you know I've been uh making fun of the uh the Democrats for not being authentic where Trump is completely owning the authentic it you know part of the argument and uh so the Democrats in order to be more authentic they have this entire theater kid skit they're trying to put on a like a competing play so that they get more attention than Trump does so they're dressing all in pink and they got their little the little signs that they say stuff like musk steals even the little signs are stupid so they got this little douche baggy signs and their little douche baggy uh pink pink outfits and CNN did an instant poll to see how the public was taking it especially the Democrats interrupting and 80% 80% said the Democrats interrupting was inappropriate it means they couldn't even they couldn't even get their own team on their side they were so just so wrong in every way and then CBS News yugov did a poll and found that 76% of the viewers approved of trump speech 76% how in the hell do you get 76% to approve of any president speech is that even real now I realize these are not the most scientific polls they're kind of instant polls but even even a non-scientific instant poll if it's on CBS or if it's on CNN you sort of expect it to lean in One Direction but it leaned pretty hard in the other direction so the whole 8020 thing kicked in again the Democrats found the only thing they could have done which 80% of the public would disagree with in the context of being the the party that's being accused of always being on the wrong side of every 8020 they created a whole new topic which is you know the disturbance of the president's speech and they turned it into an 8020 against themselves while they're being accused of being the the the idiots who can't F Grand an 020 topic it could not have been funnier anyway so all the theater kids got together and put on their little douchebag uh play and and it didn't work out uh and then Trump um you know of course I've always been a big fan of Trump's nicknames but I have to be honest there was one nickname that when he first came up with it I felt you know this doesn't feel like it's up to his usual standard and I never I just didn't embrace it and it was Pocahontas now I'm not sure why I didn't like it I guess it was maybe I know fter was too on the nose or somehow disrespectful to Native Americans or something I don't know I didn't have a specific complaint but that one I felt like you know not really on point but what I've learned is that if you stay in character and you relentlessly stay in character and you just never leave your character which is what Trump does better than anybody uh you can eventually normalize anything and Trump has normalized his nickname thing to the point where if he didn't do it you'd be disappointed and my my best analogy to this is uh uh uh John mackenro tennis player so if you're not old enough to remember John mackenro was a like a bad boy brat always complaining about the refs and yelling stuff like you can't be serious and and everybody loved to hate him because it was just so inappropriate you're not supposed to do that you know tennis is supposed to be you know a dignified sport sort of like politics politics is supposed to be a dignified thing but you know there's Trump giving all these nicknames uh nicknames and there's Mack androe yelling at refs oh you don't yell at refs at every little call you don't like come on but eventually since Mack androe was just always ma androe by the time he was playing the senior tour he'd have to throw in some complaints even if he didn't care because people expected it it was just part of the act so once once you are Relentless and you're authentic authentic is the thing mackenro was authentic he really felt the things he was saying and he really had and everything about it was just him that was just his personality so Trump has this personality that if you're first first exposed to it you go whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here that's way too far you've gone way too far but by the time he got to the the essentially a state of the union that wasn't one because he just started he's in the most dignified room in the world doing the most dignified thing you could ever do which is a presidential address and he starts talking about Ukraine and how some people want you know Ukraine to last forever and then he he calls out Pocahontas he goes well you know maybe Pocahontas and by the time by the by the time he throws a Pocahontas into the State of the Union you just have to surrender to it you have to just give up yeah you have to go all right you you just have to you just have to give up and you just got to go okay she's Pocahontas there's nothing we could do about it and now it's just funny and and and somehow he normalized that to the point where where you just couldn't complain about it and even she tried to smile when the camera hit her uh I don't know if she was smiling on the inside but uh I'd like to think that even Elizabeth Warren could understand the moment and uh that was funny anyway so then uh one of Trump's moments was he started talking about the potential for fraud in the government spending he was talking about the social security list of people who were getting Social Security and he starts with you know there they I don't know over 4 million million people who are getting paid from Social Security he says who are over 100 and but younger than 109 and you hear that number you're like holy cow all those people they might be getting it now let me say I don't know if that means that people are getting paid it might mean that there's just a data error in the database and some other database you know corrects for it somewhere else so I'm not sure that it's an indic of of actual crime or corruption but what it definitely is is something that everybody can understand when he talks about it which is what makes Trump special like even his critics will say we got to find somebody who talks like the people Trump talks like the people and and he's just so good at it that this is another example so then he starts going to the list he like like and then you've got this many people on this age and he just keeps getting older and older in the ages so he gets to like the middle of his list he's like between the ages of 160 and 169 and now it's just hilarious because everybody knows you know maybe there's somebody who's over a hundred you know there could be people over a 100 who are collecting Social Security but there's nobody over 160 and certainly not 120 1,000 of them and then he just keeps going and till he gets to U like people who I guess it was one person over 300 years old according to the database not reality now again it's it's not my understanding that we know for sure that these are indications of Fraud and I've heard an argument that they're not but everybody understands that if your big database of who should be getting money has errors like this in it you've got a problem now the problem might be you need better data or the problem might be there's massive corruption going on and and this is showing where some of it is but uh apparently Bernie Sanders did his own response video that nobody wanted and nobody wanted hear Bernie Sanders he wasn't the official response person because that was uh slotnick who did it later but Bernie makes his own video and and he decides to focus on the part about the social security ages and so Bernie is now joined the Crazy Eyes uh part of the Democrat Party where where his eyes are literally like crazy they're all crazy and and he goes nobody nobody who is 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks now uh Bernie I don't know why I need to explain this to you but I don't think Trump's point was that we have a lot of really old people in America who are receiving Social Security it wasn't his point that there are real people who are 300 years old who have received a lot of Social Security no his point was either the data is bad and that's a problem or there might be some corruption indicated by this but the best that birding can do is to is to emphatically remind us that nobody nobody who's 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks now he looked like he was suffering dementia so I'm just going to put it out there I don't you know I'm no medical expert but everybody reaches an age where things don't work so well and I have to say Bernie looks like he's reached that age so imagine being a de imagine being a Democrat and watching Trump do this you know master class and Showmanship that was really First Rate I mean it was good and and then you like oh okay he was good we'll give him that uh we we we will acknowledge that Trump knows how to put on the show okay all right we're going to give him that but watch this watch when our crack field of Democrats you takes him down and then Bernie comes on oh there's nobody who's 300 years old and you're just sitting there saying oh god oh no shoot me oh God why do I have to be on this team so that was great uh and other news on the uh speech um Trump said that uh he got a letter from zalinski that he just got before the speech I guess and he said the letter reads uh Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer so that's Trump quoting the letter and Trump said I appreciate that he sent this letter uh I just got a little while ago now if if you remember what Trump said he said you're not ready for this minerals deal because you're still talking about like War lasting forever and you you're just not ready for Peace So I need something that says I want to make peace really soon and zalinski gets the message and he sends a thing that says he's ready to come to the table to bring lasting peace closer as soon as possible so that's what he needed lasting peace soon as possible put that in the letter send me the letter let me read the letter and then we're good then then something can happen I love the clarity of that the the clarity was perfect because Trump said exactly what was wrong he told him exactly how to fix it and if he fix fix that peace to Ukraine and so zalinski finally it couldn't have been more clear exactly what he needed to do put exactly those words in a letter sent it exactly to him Trump gave him the credit that you know he essentially had promised if you can do this things will be good and then Trump did the thing which we love Trump about is that uh although his enemies call him transactional those who are not his enemies call him a dealmaker he likes making deals so if you can just get on the frame of we're going to make a deal and you don't be ridiculous about it we're going to make a deal so maybe back on track we'll see where that goes um so uh most of the speech was a more let's say I don't want to say anti-china cuz that it feels like the wrong frame but rather I'd say framing China as the biggest challenge to America in the future the near future starting today and I didn't catch anything that was anti-russian uh but I did I did fall asleep during part of it was there any anti-russian stuff in the spe cuz I don't think there was which would be sort of a sort of a change from you know normal presidents lately certainly would be a change from Biden uh but there was a whole bunch of um again I don't want to say anti-china but let's say uh taking China seriously as the uh other big Power in the world and so he had tariffs on China and of course China is going to respond to the tariffs uh he talked about building a missile defense um you could argue that that you know includes anybody who might send a missile but who are we really worried about uh we shouldn't be worried about anybody attacking the Homeland but I wouldn't mind having a missile defense just in case um he talked about the Panama ports and resting control from China they got a little too much control there he talked about putting a tax on Chinese ships who come into port in America he talked about taxes on Chinese cranes I guess the cranes that load and unload the containers um and he talked about um putting America heavily back into the ship building business both Commercial and Military now here's another one of those things where I wonder if this is one of those cases where somebody smart said something and it bubbled all the way up to the presidency and turned into policy because that only happens with Trump trump has the best network of geniuses at this point people who are just really really smart who say really really smart stuff and the smart stuff bubbles all the way up to the top and and then it makes a difference because it was only was it a week or two I saw an ax there was a post by I think it was bason who would be one of the smartest people in the country frankly and uh he was talking about the difference in ship building capability of China versus basically everybody else in the world so China has built this massive ship building capability and it's both for commercial vessels and um military vessels now and that America had sort of deprecated deprecated its own ability so I think we have very little ability to build ships at the moment relative to China so if we want to have any influence over the oceans and that's a big part of the globe is the ocean and if you want to be you know selling and buying stuff all over the world you're going to need a lot of military ability in the ocean so Trump has uh has made that a priority to uh to become a major ship Builder and and I kind of wonder if that came from you know one post on X um because it was such a stark and shocking set of data that I'd never heard before I had no idea that we were basically not good at building ships anymore and that China had become really good at it which is scary that's a that's a real scary thing so it's possible that that was just one of those things again or it might be that you know maybe a lot of people were aware of it and turned it into a thing all right so um I'm kind of excited about that because uh to the extent that we can do anything with tax breaks or whatever it is to make ship building big I think that's exactly the right Instinct and it doesn't have to be alra military because yeah we're going to be you know living on the sea and doing a lot in the sea for a long time um I saw a summary of Trump's speech by David Sachs I'll just read it because it's a good summary um so saak said uh this was the theme of the night Democrats sat Sullen faac as president Trump described one sensible policy after another Democrats took the 20% side of every 8020 issue Trump even explained the Trap that Democrats were about to fall into and they still fell into it yeah as I said earlier anyway oh here's the Nicole Wallace thing so Nicole Wallace after the speech said uh you know the that she had lots of good feelings about the the kid DJ the one who uh got the Secret Service badge there and you know she had the normal good feelings about it it's good but then she goes quote uh about DJ quote I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer but I hope he never has to defend the United States capital against Donald Trump's supporters and then she says this is wild and if he does I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to SU Sude it's like is there any way they could lose harder than that they just had to dig really deep to find some problem with that anyway and then uh the response came from Alis Senator Lisa slen of uh of Michigan and I didn't know she was a former CIA agent so anyway she was complaining about the the Doge employees having access to tax returns and health information and your bank account um but the thing the the thing that people get wrong about human motivation the Democrats get this wrong about human motivation is when you talk about the richest man in the world um what would be the the worst thing you could do business-wise from a risk management perspective what would be the worst thing that the richest man in the world could do the worst thing would be to say that you're trying to help the government you know with cutting costs but really you you get caught doing something that's the opposite like stealing that's the worst thing that could happen you would lose everything what what person who's the richest person in the world would get involved in anything that would have a gigantic gigantic downside risk now what's the upside risk he's already the richest man in the world probably is on his way to be the first trillionaire do you know what he could do if he wanted to stay the richest man in the world and even get richer stay on of politics completely but nobody in their right mind who is already in that position financially would would create a situation where everybody's watching and if he did something insane like you try to try to use his access to steal money from the government how could that be Dumber so watching people look at one of the smartest people in the country and richest musk and assuming that he would do the dumbest thing that anybody would possibly do in that situation is so pathetically dumb that you I almost don't have words to describe it yeah I just shake my head and think okay I don't know how you think that that would make sense in his world in fact if I had to make a list of all the people in the planet that I would trust the most if I lost my wallet it would be Elon Musk if you dropped your wallet on the sidewalk and he was the first one to find it the chance of you getting it back with all of the money in it is 100% first of all he wouldn't let you not get your wallet back like you'd give it to somebody say make sure they get this wallet back and secondly there isn't any chance he's going to steal any money from it none zero chance so that's how I feel about him in the government it's hard to imagine somebody who would be less of a risk now the Doge employees themselves um I suppose everybody who has access to anything has some kind of risk but you know do I have less trust in the Doge people than I have in the government employees who have been there forever and have access to those same systems what would be the reasoning with which I would say oh the regular employees of the government are all honest and good people but the Doge people or not like what would be any evidence that we increased any risk to these databases I don't know there's just no connecting tissue because it's not like nobody had access until Doge did how many think how many people do you think have access to all of our systems it's got to be quite a few anyway um so uh here's some other stuff um according to investing.com uh the European Union has postponed its plans to gradually phase out Russian gas so I think you're going to see Europe there seems to be some kind of a acknowledgment that Russian energy is going to be important to Europe and maybe it'll stay that way now I don't think that that would happen unless people saw that Russia and the United States were moving toward something that could be a more productive relationship in the future whatever that looks like now I have to again uh and I hate that I always have to put all the qualifiers on this but I don't love Putin I understand that you know he is dangerous I know he's a dictator he's a murderer I know he's not to be trusted okay are we good did I say all the right things now I can just say what I want to say um Putin is really good in the persuasion stuff just really good and the fact that he's been doing uh joint military exercises with China I don't think that means he really wants to be in any kind of a joint military action with China like for what is he going to join China in attacking Australia someday I I don't see it is he going to join China in attacking America someday it's hard to imagine that but it's really good for making sure that America says you know you'd be better off if you were our friend instead of China's friend and I think maybe that's what he always wanted which is to have China and the United States fight over who's a better friend to Putin and I think he got it I think he accomplished that now you could say you know Putin is the evil monster that you want him to be no argument whatsoever I I'll let you have your opinion of him and that has nothing to do with my opinion my opinion is that just from a pure persuasion perspective damn he's good he's just really good and you can't take that away from him he's got skills and I do think that that's one of the things that bonds him with Trump is that they can see they can see the player and I think that they really appreciate that there's somebody who appreciates them because I'll bet you uh I'll bet you they have a solid appreciation of the the skill set of the other that's what it looks like to me anyway um there's a story on uh apparently uh right after the Biden Administration was about to end but before it did you already heard this that $20 billion got funneled into these you know new Charities and these uh you know green green Charities that you never heard of New York Post has a story about this but Mario Nal did a great job of summarizing it on X so here are some of the uh Charities that this $0 billion got speed funneled into uh one group is called the climate United Fund and they Got7 billion uh but has no federal filings or IRS records so just sort of appeared uh and of course you all know what the climate United Fund does right because those are three words that sound good fund United climate I like the climate but are they United yes they are united but you're going to need money is there any kind of a yes there's a fund climate United Fund and then there's another one that got $2 billion called the power forward communities well is that a good thing how could it not be a good thing it's got communities right in the name it's got forward we all want to move forward not backwards and it's got power power right in the name and uh apparently the de Department of Justice and FBI are now investigating looking at their bank accounts and such we'll see what happens um but here's what I love about the story I love when you finally see enough in the news where a pattern can can form in your head and the pattern here is that the most suspicious sounding Charities the ones that get government money they all have the following characteristic they're made up of three words the name of the organization and they're three random sounding good words that if you saw any one of the words individually you'd say that's a good word but if you put the three of them together so you can take these two the climate United Fund and the power forward communities both three words both all good words that don't mean much but you could you could even interchange them uh I've just started a charity it's called the uh communities uh forward fund or the United power forward yeah you could basically just throw it all together and you got you got your charity name it just has to sound good comically suspicious names that's what I'd have ai looking for um Social Security Administrations speaking of them they just said that they could reduce their own budget by $800 million per year now I think there's a ex head of the secret Social Services who is a Democrat of course who says uh oh no if you did that it would only be months before the entire thing collapsed but I said to myself how in the world is the Social Security Administration just the administration not not the payments we're not talking about the payments that that's a whole different budget but just the people who manage the payments how is that so big that they can cut $800 million out of it and think it would still work like what would be left and doesn't your common sense tell you that they're way overstaffed right cuz if you you took away you know there obviously it's mostly just data in a computer but how many special cases are there that you need that many staff for what is kind of an automated process because once you've programmed in what's the current law okay if you're this age you get this you know you put it in the rules once you've done that uh as as a current recipient of Social Security I I recently just like two months ago I think I I uh decided to turn it on and so they already have all of my information that I've been paying forever because they send me reports so I know that they have it so they have everything that they need to know about me and then I fill out some forms uh and then they know that I want to get paid they know what to pay me the computer does no humans need to be involved and then I get checks which part of that require a human Beyond you know setting up the computers in the first place and I'm thinking to myself man the only way you could get to such a large organization is if you got there sort of incrementally you know increasing the budget 10% a year every time you could but if you were to build this today from scratch don't you think it would be six programmers and than a big computer budget like why do you need this many special cases I don't know maybe it's to take care of all those people who are 300 years old and collecting checks according to Bernie well here's something that's fun uh John Stewart had offered to interview Elon Musk but Elon said I got some um requirements one of the requirements was it would be unedited so unedited um good and I think there was some other requirement but uh being unedited I think would be the primary one and um so it looks like this might happen because Stuart's agreed to the conditions um Stuart said uh have think about his offer meaning unedited I thought you know hey that's actually how the uh instit interviews normally air it's unedited so sure we'd be delighted and he said he would do it any length of time which is another thing typically you wouldn't do on a TV show normally that there's always that time but this is a special case so if it if 90 minutes is the right amount of time they'll do it 90 minutes if 15 is Right 15 I like that um but here's what I think about this this might might be the best interview of all time it has that potential and here's why um you you don't have to like John Stewart um in general you don't have to like his political views uh you know you can say what you want to say about him you could say oh he's not you know he's a snake in the grass and he might act reasonable sometimes but but any minute he could turn on you whatever you want to say but here's what I say he as far as I can tell John Stewart is unwilling to be stupid in public I can't watch him privately probably it's the same but publicly I've been watching him for a long time and he doesn't want to act stupid in public and by that I mean he would not reject common sense musk only has Common Sense only uh the there's probably nobody in the world who could do a better job of saying this is why we're doing it and this just makes Common Sense musk is the champion of common sense I have real reasons here are my reasons and if you disagree with me I'll rethink it I like if you have a good argument I'll rethink it steuart's the same I believe that steuart if he heard something he'd never heard before which is very possible you like an argument that he just never heard before I think that he would in real time say okay you know what that's actually a pretty good answer and there's nobody almost nobody in the entire world that I think is capable of that and that's a big compliment so it's a compliment to Showmanship and uh what I think is public honesty so I think this could be one of the biggest things we've ever seen in America because you're never going to get these two kinds of personalities sitting down together uh it just doesn't happen so the thing about mus is he's not going to lie and he's going to have a reason for everything he does and it's going to be a damn good reason now that doesn't mean he's never made a mistake you know I I can't think of one off hand but humans you know humans make mistakes and he doesn't say I don't make mistakes so musk like John Stewart very unique in that if John Stuart said in real time okay but you haven't thought of this or you haven't thought of that and it was a good point I believe you would see um Yan mus say that's a good point yeah let me think about that but I think that works both ways if musk at a good point I think that Stuart would say okay actually that's a good point let me think about it so I've never seen even the potential for this much goodness in a podcast I mean I would I would clear my schedule to watch this at any length uh because the uniqueness of the characters and then the double uniqueness of putting them together so I'm yes yes yes hell yes on this happening I hope it does could be huge for the country um Ben chapiro has started a uh petition to call for the uh pardon of Derek schauen convicted for killing George Floyd now um I can't say enough about how impressed I am because you know if you have things working for you like Ben chapiro does he's got a good situation where he's you know respected commentator um he's got a platform that looks like it's successful to me and he's in one of those situations where you don't take risks this big this is a big freaking risk to to put your name you know behind uh the essentially what would be taking George Floyd from being a saint down to a more normal situation and also um supporting the white guy who got sent to Jail uh so this is a big risk but so let me say this about uh Ben Shapiro this is brave this is brave it's perfectly timed oh this is exactly the right time to do it and it's it's well argued so I've I've seen his argument it's well argued and it's absolutely right it's morally ethically um and in every way that America cares it's right it's time I'm all in I'm all in yeah so I mean I have less to lose I'm already disgraced so it's not a big risk for me to say I'm all in but it's a bigger risk for Ben Shapiro so all respect to that full respect um so you probably saw on social media Chang in the topic um there were videos of I guess there were 22 Senators eventually who did what sounded like identical little videos where it was just them talking to the camera and they they each had this little douchebag uh microphone that doesn't look right when you're holding it like that and you just got this little thing in your two little fingers and you're leaning forward in your chair and you're talking passionately and of course the Democrats are all the theater kids so it all looks like they were acting but it took about 5 seconds for the internet to say wait a minute wait a minute you you're not the only person saying something like that and then there would be a split screen and if you watch it developed during the day in real time it was hilarious somebody noticed wait a minute there are two senators who seem to be doing something similar and then like an hour later wait a minute wait a minute it's more than two I I think there are four of them and then they show you know the four of them and they'd be talking at the same time at pretty much the same words and then it just kept increasing until it was like this screen full of people all talking at the same time with the same little message and the same little douchebag uh microphone and so Elon Musk had posted that uh he would give a free cyber truck to whoever could posi positively identify who wrote it because they were trying to find the the author who was behind it but it turns out it was Corey Booker so Corey Booker organized it and uh I guess they decided he was the best they had to try to come up with a social media strategy because they weren't happy with their social media strategy and I guess Chuck Schumer wasn't the greatest social media leader so they're like oh we need somebody young and cool to do our social media so Corey Booker puts that together which effectively was all the theater kids doing a play like what they do and before I knew who was being behind it um I decided that it was somebody either inexperienced or young and here's what I picked up this is sort of a writer trick because for each of them all 22 of them they had the same sort of opening tagline uh that was that ain't true that's what you just saw so it starts with a a trump saying he was going to lower prices on day one and then it would switch to one of the Senators saying that ain't true that's what you just saw I think they may have bleeped the part or not I don't know um so here's the writer's trick The Writer's trick is this and maybe it's a communicator's trick as well you can swear if you do it once and it's something that's really important and you just want to bring it attention to it or if you're somebody like Trump who sort of incorporated into his personality that if he gives a rally speech he might lay an s bomb on you he doesn't do FS uh he but maybe maybe a hell maybe a damn maybe a you know maybe a maybe an S so if you use it judiciously it can be an accent that works I remember uh several years ago there was bestelling book I can't remember it but it had F in the title it was something F this or I don't know I forget but it became a best-selling book and then about a year later I was walking through a bookstore and there were all these books with the fword in the title because they had decided that maybe what sold that other book was that had an FW in the title no no that's not what sold that other book no no it probably was a great book and it had a also a you know attening getting title but if you take the it's a great book out of the equation you can't sell it just because you put an FW in the title that would be the worst idea in the world and I don't think the other books sold sold much they did not become bestsellers but here if you're going to do something that you've got 22 Senators send signing up for you can't put this artificial swear word in there oh there it is the subtle art of not giving a f yeah that thank you that was the original book and then everybody said oh it's putting F in the title of my book that's what will work no nope it was maybe it was just a good book um but as soon as I saw that all of these senators were asked to swear and it didn't matter what the Senator's personalities were or if it worked for them or it was compatible with their character or their moral or ethical framing of the world that's just amateur time you know anybody who doesn't know how to use a curse word in Communications or writing that's amateur somebody who could use one and get away with it and make it actually work like the title of that book that was an expert that's a great writer so you could tell right away that it was amateur work uh I don't know if I don't know if Cory Booker wrote it I'm guessing he didn't probably just had some young person write it and then the mistake was to overuse the the sword because why bother anyway um watching the Democrats pretend to understand social media is hilarious because it used to be that the Democrats didn't the Democrats sort of control the youth vote and now they're so anti- youth I mean with Pelosi and Schumer and God that they had to go to Corey Booker to get their young person and the best he could come up with was terrible um so it got it got spotted and mocked right away um and Scott Jennings who you know is the uh Republican Superstar who appears on CNN and embarrasses their panel of idiots every day um here's how he summed it up he goes um voters we need more authenticity in our politicians Democrats and then he he points out the this totally artificial Communications so the Democrats need more authenticity and the closest they could come to it was making 22 people curse the same way I don't know how you could get further from the mark that was impressively bad meanwhile the hill is the hill had an article about how Democrats are looking for an outsider to run for president I guess they decided that uh of their many many Democrat politicians they didn't have any who were worth a damn so they've got to look for like an outsider now remember I just told you the story about somebody put the FW in the title of a best-selling book so then all the dumb people said I've got it it's the fword in the title of the book so they they copy the wrong thing and here again They're copying the wrong thing Trump won as an outsider but not because he's an outsider that's not why he won because everything he does makes more sense than his compet I he won because he's incredibly good at communicating he won because his policies are really really popular he won because he's really really smart and he's Brave beyond anything we've ever seen in a president fight fight fight so if you take all of those qualities of trump let's call it his skill stack from his his knowledge how to put on a show to knowing how to get loyalty to knowing how to make it deal I mean his skill stack is a mile high there are very few people who have assembled anything like the number of uh skills and knowledge sets that Trump has acquired over his life and he just keeps adding to it I mean still at his current age he's adding skills like he's learning crypto Trump could probably already talk better about crypto than most of the democratic politicians so if you've got somebody who's AAR learning machine he has you know no sense of embarrassment he's Brave Beyond any anything we've ever seen in that kind of an office uh can take incredible shame can can fight through the lawfare the attempted assassinations I mean come on this this is a this is Once In A Thousand-Year person so what did the Democrats take away from that here's what they take away from it huh it's because he's an outsider we'll get ourselves an outsider that's not even close to what's going on you just have one person with this enormous set of skills that work together really well that's why he wins that's it you can't just go get yourself one of those you know you would already know exactly who it was if one of those people existed but they're throwing names like Mark cub and Stephen A Smith and Federman and um I think that there're completely on the wrong page they're they're in the end they're going to come up with whoever they think does the best job of pretending to be authentic I think that's that's the extent of their visibility of what's going on huh let's get an outsider who can pretend to be authentic okay okay now I don't know if Democrats can ever uh win with a you know Mark Cuban or a Federman because if they look like they're too much you know white men I just don't know if it works you know I think Biden might have been the last dinosaur to to squeak by in the Democratic party anyway uh one of the people who some think um NBC has an article about this uh is that Chris Murphy Democrat Chris Murphy he's been on TV a lot you've seen him doing a lot of anti-trump stuff and he's just all over the place but uh the thinking is that he's already running a shadow campaign for president now he would not be an outsider but he would at least be a let's say um somewhat skilled Insider but my question is this why why do the Democrats have so many people who look like movie villains CU Chris Murphy you just look at his eyes and you say to yourself oh my God that's like pure evil now I'm not saying he is I don't know one way or the other but he has the look like if he came into the casting office and you're looking for the most evil looking person you could ever hire for your movie I'm pretty sure he would get the job and I don't really know are there a lot of Republicans who look like they could be movie Evil think of John Brennan right you know John Brennan has that face that is a movie Evil face uh who is a uh Aliana Presley who's got the shaved head which she pulls off by the way the shaved head and uh she wears the Superman villain outfits which actually look great on her if I'm judging her from a fashion and appearance perspective she's actually terrific I I'm actually impressed she does a great job of creating a look but the net effect of the look is Superman villain uh yeah I've just never seen so many people in one party who could be cast as movie villains like what what is up with that meanwhile Red State um article by Bob Hogue is uh talking about how Chuck Todd who was on NBC forever um was just dumping on Biden for being a a bad human being basically uh and he was speaking with Steve Schmidt who was one of the co-founders of the Lincoln project which I think even Steve Schmidt had to get out of that because it was just so it was like living in a sphincter he had to get get away but here's what Chuck Todd said about Biden of course it's too little too late but it's fun to talk about um he goes I have to tell you something about Joe Biden there's this mythology about Joe Biden that the man cared so much it's all bull um and then Todd said that Biden had created this myth over his 40-year career that he was an incredible Family Man and instead what he really was was a craven political animal that was desperate uh that considered a run for president every four years he was eligible now I think part of the uh part of the complaint was he had some family issues some addicts in the family and the thinking was that his family needed him more than the the country maybe but uh it's interesting to say to watch Chuck Todd talk that way about Biden and I think what you're going to find is that every day that goes by will be another Democrat saying okay Biden was just the worst train wreck in the history he was never good behind closed doors he was a monster you're just going to hear the worst things and it's just beginning it's going to get worse meanwhile and I believe this Bloomberg's reporting that the Pentagon denied a report um that there was a halt in cyber operations versus Russia now remember I talked about this uh maybe yesterday and I was thinking that maybe if it were true that it was just offensive operations and that it might have been a mutual thing and maybe it was a trust building thing with Russia to see if we can get to a bigger deal but it's more likely since uh I guess secretary P heg didn't didn't do it so he I think heg Seth denied that there was any change in cyber versus Russia so if heg Seth denies it I'm a I'm going to believe him and it didn't really I guess the report didn't have the kind of backing that you think so I'm going to agree with Bloomberg on this I think that was fake news um so anyway in other news RFK Jr um he's been trying to he wants to eliminate a whole bunch of harmful additives and food the big reason that you might not want to at the moment and this is going to be tough a tough balance is that removing food additives for food might make them more expensive which seems counterintuitive right you'd think well if we don't have to add all these chemicals we can save money on all these chemicals but they must have something to do with preserving food longer something like that uh maybe taste better I don't know but uh the uh the thing that is the major driver of all these chemicals and your food this is based on the story in the LA Times is that it's the way we keep the food cost down so if your Administration the trumpet admin Administration has promised that food prices will be going down at the same time you've got the make America healthy again efforts and RFK Jr looking to get rid of these additives which would make food prices potentially go up although I'm not 100% sure that's true but that's what's being reported at the moment so I wonder if there's any Middle Ground there because there are people like me who would certainly pay more to have fewer chemicals and maybe you could let the the the market decide so instead of uh let's say let's say instead of making everybody get rid of everything what if you said uh we want to encourage people who are in the same Market to you know at least have an option where you don't have the chemicals and then the people can choose and if enough people choose the ones that's a little bit more expensive but doesn't have the health problems well then the market corrects and then then that becomes the you know less expensive thing over time um but I wonder if there's a way to solve that because it seems like there's a direct conflict between making the food safer and making it less expensive here's a little update on a story that interests me more than maybe most of you but uh do you remember the hockey stick um temperature calculations for climate change and Michael man was the um credited as the the person who came up with that and the idea was that temperatures would increase over time but that would be a point where the increase would become uh multiplied so it it would go slow slow slow and then Wham and it would go straight up like a hockey stick well uh Mark Stein writing for the publication uh the publication National Review um ended up in the lawsuit because uh I guess Stein was criticizing the hockey stick data and Michael man wanted to you know basically establish it as as legitimate and push back against critics so there was a lawsuit so Michael man sued and um I may get I may be getting some of the facts wrong here because the there are a couple of it looks like maybe whatever Mark Stein did might have been separate but related to the National Review so it looked like there might have been two legal actions one against the publication and one against the author but um there's been some movement now it's 13 years later 13 years later and a judge has reduced the $1 million defamation judgment uh which man had won they reduced it from a million do to $5,000 now there's an article by Greg Piper in just the news so I'll I'll recommend you to that so look for just the news and look for the article by Greg Piper and you'll you'll get the correct version of this I think I'm butchering a little bit but um on top of that um I think the that separately the National Review had uh been in court for the same reason and got to uh it ended in a summary judgment in National reviews favor so the National Review ended up uh getting a judgment in which they would be paid um half a million dollars in legal fees so I'm not positive but do does this mean so I get I guess I have a question as much as a statement uh does this mean that Michael man the scientist the one who created the hockey stick thing and I believe was the one who kicked off the lawsuits does that mean that instead of winning a million he got 5,000 and in the process also had to pay half a million to the other side which would suggest he came out way behind even though he won so you sort of won a little bit but it looks like it became a financial nightmare basically so um I guess I could use some factchecking on that but 13 years A lot has changed or let me put it this way um the whole our view of climate change is about ready to change so look for big changes in that domain there's a study Sam Jones is writing in the Washington Post that uh science has shown there's a link um between swearing and pain tolerance and that people who swear when they're in pain like you you know you hit your thumb with a hammer or something that the swearing decreases the pain now this is another one of those situations where you could have just asked me you didn't really have to study it just ask me um yeah squaring definitely helps with pain don't know why there's a story about a Florida man who swallowed a uh $760,000 diamond from Tiffany's so he went to Tiffany's and must have grabbed a diamond and swallowed it and so when the police got there you he asked if he'd be charged for what's in his stomach and uh I don't know the legal ins and outs of this but um I think it depends if it was a dutyfree store anybody no dutyfree all right I'll just leave that with you meanwhile was the Wall Street Journal is reporting that uh Israel is trying to neutralize what security officials see as a turkish-backed islamist threat trying to unify Syria to which I say maybe I don't understand anything about the world but why would turkey want to put a bunch of turkish-backed radical islamist unifying Syria does that look like something that would work out for them in the long run that's very suspicious anyway I just don't know how that could possibly work but hey all right my last story scientists are trying to revive the woolly mammoths they're they're going to trying to find a way to uh take some woolly mammoth DNA that they have and put it in some kind of a I don't know Asian elephant and turn it into a woolly mammoth in the future now uh they've made some progress cuz they've turned they've created a woolly mice that's right they took regular mice and they made them woolly with woolly mammoth jeans of some sort so if you'd like a woolly Mouse now talk about a dangerous experiment what would happen if you know the the mouse stayed the same size as the mouse it was just woolly but what if they'd gotten that just a little bit wrong wouldn't you have an elephant sized Mouse now that's just what I 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president's speech but first um I was

trying out grock's voice mode today so I

guess if you have the app I think it's

only on the app the the special app for

grock it's free the voice mode so you

can have conversations with it but you

can set it for what kind of voice you're

getting back so you can set it for an

assistant mode where it's you know just

kind of friendly and healthy

but it's got sexy mode and it's got

romantic

mode and it's got argumentative

mode and I'm trying to figure out how to

make them all work at the same time so

it feels like a

wife all right well I'll let I'll let

that just sit there for a while but uh

looks fun it's worth a

try um I don't know if it's happened yet

but Commerce Secretary Howard lutnick

who I'm liking a lot by the way have you

heard lotnik

talk you know there's some people that

you just hear them talk and you say are

you really that smart you talk like a

smart person lotnik is one of those when

he talks I think huh I can see how you

got rich makes sense you're pretty

smart anyway he's uh he's saying that

the tariffs on Mexico and uh and Canada

probably are going to be resolved

meaning that there'll be some kind of

Middle Ground meaning there's some kind

of accommodation meaning we'll figure

out how to work with each other uh as

soon as

today now in theory that should have

been good for the stock markets but

we'll see there's a lot of roing going

on so in

theory um the the tariffs which were big

25% on everything but uh energy I think

um they were really just to

get some kind of uh little extra energy

for an agreement especially about

stopping the fenal trade so one could

imagine if Canada and or Mexico said

wait wait in stud of these terrible

tariffs how about we do a little bit

more stopping that fenel and then that

would be something you could negotiate

with So in theory we'll have some kind

of accommodation there but you it might

be optimistic to say it's going to

happen today but lotnik I think was

warning the

markets to not you know don't

incorporate this in some kind of a

permanent situation so that was exactly

the right thing to do he might be off on

how quickly they can resolve it but uh

maybe not you know maybe it's just one

day it's

possible meanwhile the premier of

Ontario in Canada has uh can Elon musk's

starlink I I feel like companies keep

punishing or countries keep punishing

themselves well we're going to cut off

our own access to really inexpensive

internet take that all right okay uh

it's also funny to me that people think

that it's obvious that Elon Musk has

some way to

monetize being involved this involved in

the Trump

Administration if I can give you any

business um advice at all it goes like

this associating yourself with Trump

pretty much guarantees you lose half of

your

Market nobody who understands anything

about business would have said you know

what you know what would be really good

for business

is if I associate with you know half of

the country instead of the whole

country there was no

way that must didn't understand that it

would be risky just to throw in for once

it doesn't even matter matter which side

it would work either way but I feel like

the Democrats don't understand enough

about business to know that if you're

good at business you wouldn't do this

for business reasons the only the only

way it makes sense for Elan to be so

involved for business reasons is because

he thinks he needs to save the entire

country which given that it's America it

would have a big ripple effect on the

rest of the world elon's trying to save

the world now if you say oh I think he's

only trying to save the world because

he'll make money I say you're a freaking

idiot saving the world is is good enough

you don't need a you don't need a reason

on top of it I'm going to save the world

but I figured out a way to get a grift

out of this I've got a schem working

that once I've saved the world I think

I'm going to make Revenue with my

existing

companies yes that's exactly what he's

going to do he's he's going to make

Revenue in his existing companies if he

can save the whole freaking world

because it is an exist ential threat and

doge is the only thing that has any

chance of

preserving America America doesn't have

a chance this is an existential risk the

debt and there's only one person who has

the balls and maybe the capability we

hope to actually make a difference on

the debt so so there's that anyway Trump

gave his big speech which is not a state

of the union because he's only just got

there so I guess the first one is more

just a

speech so uh he pushed the Golden Age

theme which I love and he pushed the

common sense Revolution that he says

is wait I just saw something go

by all

right um and

uh the common sense re ution that he

says is now part of a global

movement now I love that because it's

really hard for anybody in any country

to be opposed to Common Sense in order

to be opposed to Common Sense you'd have

to I what dress all in pink and wear

stupid

signs okay Democrats can be opposed to

common sense because they they literally

found a way to agree with only the 20%

issues where 80% of the country is on

one side but they're like oh no we can't

be on Trump's side with the 80% of the

public so watch

this and uh I guess Trump talked about

energy and all the energy stuff he's

doing and um something about egg

prices have you noticed that everybody

wants egg prices to go down but nobody

has any idea how that would happen now I

get the energy prices would be good for

everything but is Trump doing anything

for egg prices directly I'm not aware of

it do the Democrats have a alternative

egg plan you know what I'd love I'd love

for Trump to say you know what it really

is hard to get egg prices down uh would

any of you Democrats like to work with

me to come up with a egg price reduction

plan because I'd love to see your

thinking

what no oh the pink dresses is is that

how you bring the egg prices down no no

is it the little signs that you hold up

is it the weird protests is it uh

funding Charities that we've never heard

of in other countries what what is your

plan for bringing down the egg prices so

if I were Trump I would see if he could

get the Democrats to commit to an egg

price reduction scheme and then he can

react to it and say you know what it's

actually a pretty good idea let's do it

or that's the dumbest thing I've ever

heard in my life there's got to be a

better way so let me let me put this

challenge out to the public and I'd love

to see Trump uh do something like it

just ask the public what would you do uh

actually maybe this is even an Elon Musk

thing or maybe it could start with him

how do you reduce egg

prices I mean have more chickens and you

know the obvious stuff but is there

anything the government can do that

makes sense that would lower your egg

prices subsidize them I don't

know I love to hear it and then uh the

other thing that was a big surprise to

me and the speech was Trump's going big

on American ship building we'll talk

about that separately

um but here's what I

loved Trump starts his speech by saying

quote I could find a cure to the most

devastating disease a disease that would

wipe out entire nations or announce the

answer the answers to the greatest

economy in the history or the stoppage

of crime to the lowest level ever

recorded and these people sitting right

here will not clap will not stand and

serve will not cheer for these

astronomical achievements now these are

imaginary achievements but and and then

he went on uh so Democrats sitting

before me just just this one night why

not join us in celebrating so many

incredible wins for America for the good

of our nation let's work together and

let's truly make America great

again now obviously they weren't going

to do that because they came there to be

uh protesters and you know ruining his

flow uh but what he did was he he framed

them he basically framed them so instead

of I'm giving a speech and they think

I'm a big old liar and so they're trying

to trying to make a point he framed them

as not even able to agree with things

you everybody should agree with now do

you think that they proved at sometime

during the night that the Democrats

prove him right by showing that there

were things that anybody should agree

with just anybody should agree with and

did they disagree with that one thing

that anybody should have agreed with yes

they did they fell exactly into his

frame they fell into the frame of

finding the one thing the one thing that

nobody nobody could disagree

with they found a way and it was when he

introduced the

13-year-old boy who had survived um I

guess brain cancer as a kid you know had

a real tough tough start in

life but the little kid who and it's

important to the rest of the story was

black and is still black and uh the kids

there with his father who looked awesome

looked like I I assume that was his

father who looked like you know just

this great supportive dad who'd gotten

him to this point and I guess the son

really like police officers wanted to be

one and I think he'd gotten some

honorary you know police officer badges

or something from various police

departments who were just being

supportive of the fact that he just

loved police and uh so Trump comes up

with this idea of having him in the

audience um telling his story and

there's nothing political about it it's

literally just awesome kid survived a

ter horrible thing loves the police and

the police showing love back so so uh

Trump announces that they're going to

make him part of the Secret Service now

obviously these are ceremonial kind of

positions and uh I I think he had that

new head of the Secret Service go up

there and and give him basically an ID

you know like a little wallet ID thing

that says he's part of the Secret

Service and then there was a moment

that was the best moment so I think the

kid's name was DJ and the kid just looks

at it he's just like blown away it's

like the happiest thing it's just what

he loves and he just goes in for the hug

he just grabs this this guy you never

met this uh you know this white guy

who's just the head of the Secret

Service I believe and the 13-year-old

just grabs him and hugs him like hugs

him cheek to cheek and and then you see

the the uh the head of the Secret

Service I guess I guess that's who he

was if you know his name give it to me

I'll say it um he's loving it like it's

just this moment where there just two

human beings having a genuine

hug and it was

great so what do you think the Democrats

did to

that it was really the ultimate trap it

was the ultimate ultimate trap there was

this little moment was first of all it

you know it was

contrived contrived in the sense that

Trump knew that if you put these

elements together it's going to be an

emotional impact so it was contrived in

that way but it was also completely

genuine in the sense that the emotions

of the kid and the emotions of the the

gentleman who gave him the uh the Little

Secret Service ID these those were real

emotions and there was spontaneity to it

and it was genuine it was authentic even

even given this the setup which was

artificial uh Shan

kin is that the name of the uh Secret

Service guy yeah so it this beautiful

moment so uh then on

MSNBC yeah

you switch to MSNBC and they're they're

trying to find something wrong with

it and uh Rachel madow she's she's got

some damn thing she she's acting like

Trump's taking credit for curing the

kid's brain cancer so she's all

disgusted 80% of the entire country is

like oh my God that was good like that's

a moment that's what I like to see

and they've got to be on the other side

of it and so uh what did Nicole Wallace

say I have to find the Nicole Wallace

thing I'm jumping ahead

here

uh uh it was my favorite moment anyway

she had some complaints about it we'll

get to that Nicole Wallace um

so now I don't think that this is the

most important part of the speech but it

was hilarious how he he set the frame

and set the Trap and then they fell

right into it

anyway um then uh representative

green who's a Democrat that you might

recognize as the one who always wants to

impeach Trump on his first day of office

so I think he's put he's put in for a

bunch of impeachment acts um but he gets

up and I guess he started yelling but he

wasn't microphone so on video it didn't

look like he was was making much of a

dent but he was he didn't he refused to

sit down and then I'm watching a Speaker

of the House Johnson who's sitting

sitting behind the president for the

speech with JD Vance in the back and uh

Johnson you you you could see him

getting ready for action because it

would be his job to you know get order

in the house and and so I see him reach

over and he turns his microphone toward

himself and I'm like oh it's on

it's on this is going to be good and I I

was more interested in how he did it

like you know could he pull it off in a

dignified way you know could he get you

know Green to sit

down and what I saw was even better than

that like he waited and then he he he

gaves in and it looked like Trump was

sort of expecting it and so Trump stands

back and and just lets it happen uh and

uh

then representative Johnson you gbls in

and then he reads he reads something

that he had prepared obviously that said

something like you know the the members

will show decorum and in the the room

blah blah blah and that didn't make a

difference so green just kept yelling

and then then he Johnson said uh you

know essentially uh if if we can't

restore order you know the sergeant in

army will be asked to restore order now

that kind of means escort him

out but uh that didn't take so so he had

to do it again and eventually the

sergeant sergeants at arm I guess came

down and just sort of

gently guided representative green out

who and I'm sure green was expecting it

because he you know he was pushing it to

try to get the maximum

effect but here's what I like the best

um I figured out who would be the best

casting for the next Starship Captain

for Star Trek you know there's always

another Star Trek spin-off

but representative

Johnson he has the Perfect Starship

Captain voice it's just such a command

voice I just absolutely love to hear him

talk but we usually hear them talk about

boring you know budget things and

diplomatic things and stuff but when he

when he had to

talk um I won't say like a tough guy but

rather like a captain he he talked like

a captain it was matter of fact but it

was powerful it was forceful he didn't

leave any wiggle room you know there was

no no upt talk in it he basically just

laid it out this is what's going to

happen if you do it again you'll be

removed it was excellent it was just it

was just great TV

by the way the whole thing was great TV

I don't think I've ever

anticipated one of these types of

speeches as much as this uh if you were

watching from the very beginning like

every there seemed to be like a almost

an electricity in the air I was watching

a little CNN before it went live you

know before Trump actually showed up and

even CNN seemed to be buzzing with some

kind of energy that wasn't typical

certainly wouldn't have had with Biden

so then Melania does her her uh entry

and I'm thinking to myself when was the

last time a first lady did an entry that

was that perfect for the show just sort

of perfect like she she just has that

elegance and Grace kind of thing going

on that's unusual so she's perfect the

the setup is perfect the lighting the

room the camera work uh the just the

anticipation the buzzing and then Trump

comes in and and starts working and

there's this protester with Lil sign uh

one one of the pink dressed women's you

know gets up so that As Trump has to

work his way through the aisle to get up

to the

podium um you're forced to see her with

her little sign and her sign says this

is not normal on this little white sign

but the funny thing is it looked like it

could be talking about herself as much

as Trump so that part was funny yeah

this is not normal I I guess some

Republican grabbed it out of her hand

and and just tossed it or

something I don't even know if that's

legal can you grab something out of

somebody's

hand but I I didn't see it on camera

they're grabbing out of the hand

part but that was funny uh and I didn't

I at first I didn't know why Trump gave

the stink eye to somebody because he was

he was sort of glad handing and saying

hi to everybody and then he did this

look to the right and just gave this

look and then looks away and I think he

was looking at The Pink Suit lady anyway

um what else happened so basically you

know I've been uh making fun of the uh

the Democrats for not being

authentic where Trump is completely

owning the authentic it you know part of

the argument and uh so the Democrats in

order to be more authentic they have

this entire theater kid skit they're

trying to put on a like a competing play

so that they get more attention than

Trump does so they're dressing all in

pink and they got their little the

little signs that they say stuff like

musk

[Laughter]

steals even the little signs are stupid

so they got this little douche baggy

signs and their little douche baggy uh

pink pink

outfits and CNN did an instant poll to

see how the public was taking it

especially the Democrats interrupting

and 80% 80% said the Democrats

interrupting was inappropriate it means

they couldn't even they couldn't even

get their own team on their

side they were so just so wrong in every

way and then CBS News yugov did a poll

and found that 76% of the viewers

approved of trump speech

76% how in the hell do you get 76% to

approve of any president

speech is that even real now I realize

these are not the most scientific polls

they're kind of instant polls but even

even a non-scientific instant poll if

it's on CBS or if it's on

CNN you sort of expect it to lean in One

Direction but it leaned pretty hard in

the other direction so the whole 8020

thing kicked in

again the Democrats found the only thing

they could have

done which 80% of the public would

disagree

with in the context of being the the

party that's being accused of always

being on the wrong side of every 8020

they created a whole new topic which is

you know the disturbance of the

president's speech and they turned it

into an 8020 against themselves while

they're being accused of being the the

the idiots who can't F Grand an 020

topic it could not have been funnier

anyway so all the theater kids got

together and put on their little

douchebag uh

play

and and it didn't work out uh and then

Trump um you know of course I've always

been a big fan of Trump's

nicknames but I have to be honest there

was one nickname that when he first came

up with it I felt you know this doesn't

feel like it's up to his usual standard

and I never I just didn't embrace

it and it was

Pocahontas now I'm not sure why I didn't

like it I guess it was maybe I know fter

was too on the nose or somehow

disrespectful to Native Americans or

something I don't know I didn't have a

specific complaint but that one I felt

like you know not really on

point but what I've learned is that if

you stay in character and you

relentlessly stay in character and you

just never leave your character which is

what Trump does better than anybody uh

you can eventually normalize anything

and Trump has normalized his nickname

thing to the point where if he didn't do

it you'd be disappointed and my my best

analogy to this is uh uh uh John

mackenro tennis player so if you're not

old enough to remember John mackenro was

a like a bad boy brat always complaining

about the refs and yelling stuff like

you can't be serious and and everybody

loved to hate him because it was just so

inappropriate you're not supposed to do

that you know tennis is supposed to be

you know a dignified sport sort of like

politics politics is supposed to be a

dignified thing but you know there's

Trump giving all these nicknames uh

nicknames and there's Mack androe

yelling at refs oh you don't yell at

refs at every little call you don't like

come on but eventually since Mack androe

was just always ma androe by the time he

was playing the senior tour

he'd have to throw in some complaints

even if he didn't care because people

expected it it was just part of the act

so once once you are Relentless and

you're authentic authentic is the thing

mackenro was authentic he really felt

the things he was saying and he really

had and everything about it was just him

that was just his personality so

Trump has this personality that if

you're first first exposed to it you go

whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here

that's way too far you've gone way too

far but by the time he got to

the the essentially a state of the union

that wasn't one because he just

started he's in the most dignified room

in the world doing the most dignified

thing you could ever do which is a

presidential address and he starts

talking about Ukraine and how some

people want you know Ukraine to last

forever

and then he he calls out Pocahontas he

goes well you know maybe

Pocahontas and by the time by the by the

time he throws a Pocahontas into the

State of the

Union you just have to surrender to it

you have to just give

up yeah you have to

go all

right you you just have to you just have

to give up and you just got to go

okay she's Pocahontas there's nothing we

could do about it and now it's just

funny and and and somehow he normalized

that to the point where

where you just couldn't complain about

it and even she tried to smile when the

camera hit

her uh I don't know if she was smiling

on the inside but uh I'd like to think

that even Elizabeth Warren could

understand the moment and uh that was

funny anyway so

then uh one of Trump's moments was he

started talking about the potential for

fraud in the government spending he was

talking about the social security list

of people who were getting Social

Security and he starts with you know

there they I don't know over 4 million

million people who are getting paid from

Social Security he says who are over 100

and but younger than

109 and you hear that number you're like

holy cow all those people they might be

getting it now let me say I don't know

if that means that people are getting

paid it might mean that there's just a

data error in the database and some

other database you know corrects for it

somewhere else so I'm not sure that it's

an indic

of of actual crime or

corruption but what it definitely is is

something that everybody can understand

when he talks about it which is what

makes Trump special like even his

critics will say we got to find somebody

who talks like the people Trump talks

like the

people and and he's just so good at it

that this is another example so then he

starts going to the list he like like

and then you've got this many people on

this age and he just keeps getting older

and older in the ages so he gets to like

the middle of his list he's like between

the ages of 160 and 169 and now it's

just hilarious because everybody knows

you know maybe there's somebody who's

over a hundred you know there could be

people over a 100 who are collecting

Social Security but there's nobody over

160 and certainly not 120 1,000 of them

and then he just keeps going and till he

gets to U like people who I guess it was

one person over 300 years

old according to the database not

reality now again it's it's not my

understanding that we know for sure that

these are indications of Fraud and I've

heard an argument that they're not but

everybody understands that if your big

database of who should be getting money

has errors like this in it you've got a

problem now the problem might be you

need better data or the problem might be

there's massive corruption going on and

and this is showing where some of it is

but uh apparently Bernie Sanders did his

own response video that nobody

wanted and nobody wanted hear Bernie

Sanders he wasn't the official response

person because that was uh slotnick who

did it later but Bernie makes his own

video and and he decides to focus on the

part about the social security ages and

so Bernie is now joined the Crazy Eyes

uh part of the Democrat Party where

where his eyes are literally like crazy

they're all crazy and and he goes nobody

nobody who is 150 years old or 200 years

old or 300 years old is receiving Social

Security checks

now uh

Bernie I don't know why I need to

explain this to you but I don't think

Trump's point was that we have a lot of

really old people in America who are

receiving Social

Security it wasn't his point that there

are real people who are 300 years old

who have received a lot of Social

Security no his point was either the

data is bad and that's a problem or

there might be some corruption indicated

by this but the best that birding can do

is

to is to emphatically remind us that

nobody nobody who's 150 years old or 200

years old or 300 years old is receiving

Social Security

checks now he looked like he was

suffering dementia

so I'm just going to put it out there I

don't you know I'm no medical expert but

everybody reaches an age where things

don't work so well and I have to say

Bernie looks like he's reached that age

so imagine being a de imagine being a

Democrat and watching Trump do this you

know master class and Showmanship that

was really First Rate I mean it was good

and and then you like oh okay he was

good we'll give him that uh we we we

will acknowledge that Trump knows how to

put on the show okay all right we're

going to give him that but watch this

watch when our crack field of Democrats

you takes him down and then Bernie comes

on oh there's nobody who's 300 years

old and you're just sitting there saying

oh god oh no shoot me oh God why do I

have to be on this team

so that was

great uh and other news on the uh speech

um Trump said that uh he got a letter

from zalinski that he just got before

the speech I guess and he said the

letter reads uh Ukraine is ready to come

to the negotiating table as soon as

possible to bring lasting peace closer

so that's Trump quoting the letter and

Trump said I appreciate that he sent

this letter uh I just got a little while

ago now if if you remember what Trump

said he said you're not ready for this

minerals deal because you're still

talking about like War lasting forever

and you you're just not ready for Peace

So I need something that says I want to

make peace really

soon and zalinski gets the message and

he sends a thing that says he's ready to

come to the table to bring lasting peace

closer as soon as possible so that's

what he needed lasting peace soon as

possible put that in the letter send me

the letter let me read the letter and

then we're

good then then something can happen I

love the clarity of that the the clarity

was perfect because Trump said exactly

what was wrong he told him exactly how

to fix it and if he fix fix that peace

to

Ukraine and so zalinski

finally it couldn't have been more clear

exactly what he needed to do put exactly

those words in a letter sent it exactly

to him Trump gave him the credit that

you know he essentially had promised if

you can do this things will be good and

then Trump did the thing which we love

Trump

about is that uh although his enemies

call him

transactional those who are not his

enemies call him a

dealmaker he likes making deals so if

you can just get on the frame of we're

going to make a deal and you don't be

ridiculous about it we're going to make

a deal so maybe back on track we'll see

where that

goes

um so uh most of the speech was a more

let's say I don't want to say anti-china

cuz that it feels like the wrong frame

but

rather I'd say framing China as the

biggest challenge to America in the

future the near future starting today

and I didn't catch anything that was

anti-russian

uh but I did I did fall asleep during

part of it was there any anti-russian

stuff in the spe

cuz I don't think there was which would

be sort of a sort of a change from you

know normal presidents lately certainly

would be a change from

Biden uh but there was a whole bunch of

um again I don't want to say anti-china

but let's say uh taking China seriously

as the uh other big Power in the

world and so he had tariffs on China and

of course China is going to respond to

the tariffs uh he talked about building

a missile

defense um you could argue that that you

know includes anybody who might send a

missile but who are we really worried

about uh we shouldn't be worried about

anybody attacking the Homeland but I

wouldn't mind having a missile defense

just in

case um he talked about the Panama ports

and resting control from China they got

a little too much control there he

talked about putting a tax on Chinese

ships who come into port in America he

talked about taxes on Chinese cranes I

guess the cranes that load and unload

the

containers um and he talked about um

putting

America heavily back into the ship

building business both Commercial and

Military now here's another one of those

things

where I wonder if this is one of those

cases where somebody smart said

something and it bubbled all the way up

to the presidency and turned into policy

because that only happens with Trump

trump has the best network of geniuses

at this point people who are just really

really smart who say really really smart

stuff and the smart stuff bubbles all

the way up to the top and and then it

makes a difference because it was only

was it a week or two I saw an ax there

was a post by I think it was

bason who would be one of the smartest

people in the country frankly and uh he

was talking about the difference in ship

building capability of China versus

basically everybody else in the world so

China has built this massive ship

building

capability and it's both for commercial

vessels and um military vessels now and

that America had sort of deprecated

deprecated its own ability so I think we

have very little ability to build ships

at the moment relative to China so if we

want to have any influence over the

oceans and that's a big part of the

globe is the ocean and if you want to be

you know selling and buying stuff all

over the world you're going to need a

lot of military ability in the ocean

so Trump has uh has made that a priority

to uh to become a major ship Builder and

and I kind of wonder if that came from

you know one post on

X um because it was such a stark and

shocking set of data that I'd never

heard before I had no idea that we were

basically not good at building ships

anymore and that China had become really

good at it which is scary that's a

that's a real scary thing so it's

possible that that was just one of those

things again or it might be that you

know maybe a lot of people were aware of

it and turned it into a

thing all right so

um I'm kind of excited about that

because uh to the extent that we can do

anything with tax breaks or whatever it

is to make ship building big I think

that's exactly the right Instinct and it

doesn't have to be alra

military because yeah we're going to be

you know living on the sea and doing a

lot in the sea for a long

time um I saw a summary of Trump's

speech by David Sachs I'll just read it

because it's a good

summary um so saak said uh this was the

theme of the night Democrats sat Sullen

faac as president Trump described one

sensible policy after another Democrats

took the 20% side of every 8020 issue

Trump even explained the Trap that

Democrats were about to fall into and

they still fell into

it yeah as I said

earlier

anyway oh here's the Nicole Wallace

thing so Nicole Wallace after the speech

said uh you know the that she had lots

of good feelings about the the kid DJ

the one who uh got the Secret Service

badge there and you know she had the

normal good feelings about it it's good

but then she goes quote uh about DJ

quote I hope he has a long life as a law

enforcement officer but I hope he never

has to defend the United States capital

against Donald Trump's

supporters and then she says this is

wild and if he does I hope he isn't one

of the six who loses his life to SU

[Laughter]

Sude it's like is there any

way they could lose harder than that

they just had to dig really deep to find

some problem with that anyway and then

uh the response came from Alis Senator

Lisa

slen of uh of

Michigan and I didn't know she was a

former CIA agent

so anyway she was complaining about the

the Doge employees having access to tax

returns and health information and your

bank account

um but the thing the the thing that

people get wrong about human motivation

the Democrats get this wrong about human

motivation is when you talk about the

richest man in the

world um what would be the the worst

thing you could do

business-wise from a risk management

perspective what would be the worst

thing that the richest man in the world

could

do the worst thing would be to say that

you're trying to help the government you

know with cutting costs but really you

you get caught doing something that's

the opposite like

stealing that's the worst thing that

could happen you would lose

everything what what person who's the

richest person in the world would get

involved in anything that would have a

gigantic gigantic downside risk now

what's the upside

risk he's already the richest man in the

world probably is on his way to be the

first trillionaire do you know what he

could do if he wanted to stay the

richest man in the world and even get

richer stay on of politics

completely but nobody in their right

mind who is already in that position

financially would would create a

situation where everybody's watching and

if he did something insane like you try

to try to use his access to steal money

from the

government how could that be

Dumber so watching people look at one of

the smartest people in the country and

richest musk and assuming that he would

do the dumbest thing that anybody would

possibly do in that situation

is so

pathetically

dumb that you I almost don't have words

to describe it yeah I just shake my head

and think

okay I don't know how you think that

that would make sense in his world in

fact if I had to make a list of all the

people in the planet that I would trust

the most if I lost my

wallet it would be Elon Musk

if you dropped your wallet on the

sidewalk and he was the first one to

find

it the chance of you getting it back

with all of the money in it is

100% first of all he wouldn't let you

not get your wallet back like you'd give

it to somebody say make sure they get

this wallet back and secondly there

isn't any chance he's going to steal any

money from it none zero

chance so that's how I feel about him in

the government it's hard to imagine

somebody who would be less of a risk now

the Doge employees

themselves um I suppose everybody who

has access to anything has some kind of

risk but you know do I have less trust

in the Doge people than I have in the

government employees who have been there

forever and have access to those same

systems what would be the

reasoning with which I would say oh the

regular employees of the government are

all honest and good people but the Doge

people or

not like what would be any evidence that

we

increased any risk to these

databases I don't know there's just no

connecting tissue because it's not like

nobody had access until Doge did how

many think how many people do you think

have access to all of our

systems it's got to be quite a

few

anyway um

so uh here's some other

stuff um according to

investing.com uh the European Union has

postponed its plans to gradually phase

out Russian

gas so I think you're going to see

Europe there seems to be some kind of a

acknowledgment that Russian energy is

going to be important to Europe and

maybe it'll stay that way now I don't

think that that would happen unless

people saw that Russia and the United

States were moving toward something that

could be a more productive relationship

in the future whatever that looks like

now I have to again

uh and I hate that I always have to put

all the qualifiers on this but I don't

love Putin I understand that you know he

is dangerous I know he's a dictator he's

a murderer I know he's not to be trusted

okay are we good did I say all the right

things now I can just say what I want to

say um

Putin is really good in the persuasion

stuff just really good and the fact that

he's been doing uh joint military

exercises with

China I don't think that means he really

wants to be in any kind of a joint

military action with China like for what

is he going to join China in attacking

Australia

someday I I don't see it is he going to

join China in attacking America

someday it's hard to imagine

that but it's really good for making

sure that America says you know you'd be

better off if you were our friend

instead of China's friend and I think

maybe that's what he always wanted which

is to have China and the United States

fight over who's a better friend to

Putin and I think he got

it I think he accomplished that now you

could say you know Putin is the evil

monster that you want him to be no

argument whatsoever I I'll let you have

your opinion of him and that has nothing

to do with my opinion my opinion is that

just from a pure persuasion perspective

damn he's good he's just really good

and you can't take that away from him

he's got

skills and I do think that that's one of

the things that bonds him with Trump is

that they can see they can see the

player and I think that they really

appreciate that there's somebody who

appreciates them because I'll bet you uh

I'll bet you they have a solid

appreciation of the the skill set of the

other that's what it looks like to

me anyway um there's a story on

uh apparently uh right after the Biden

Administration was about to end but

before it did you already heard this

that $20 billion got funneled into these

you know new Charities and these uh you

know green green Charities that you

never heard of New York Post has a story

about this but Mario Nal did a great job

of summarizing it on X so here are some

of the uh Charities that this $0 billion

got speed

funneled into uh one group is called the

climate United Fund and they Got7

billion uh but has no federal filings or

IRS records so just sort

of

appeared uh and of course you all know

what the climate United Fund does right

because those are three words that sound

good fund United climate I like the

climate but are they United yes they are

united but you're going to need money is

there any kind of a yes there's a fund

climate United Fund and then there's

another one that got $2 billion called

the power forward communities well is

that a good thing how could it not be a

good thing it's got communities right in

the name it's got forward we all want to

move forward not backwards and it's got

power power right in the name and uh

apparently the de Department of Justice

and FBI are now investigating looking at

their bank accounts and such we'll see

what happens

um but here's what I love about the

story I love when you finally see enough

in the news where a pattern can can form

in your

head and the pattern here is that the

most suspicious sounding Charities the

ones that get government money

they all have the following

characteristic they're made up of three

words the name of the organization and

they're three random sounding good words

that if you saw any one of the words

individually you'd say that's a good

word but if you put the three of them

together so you can take these two the

climate United Fund and the power

forward communities both three words

both all good words that don't mean much

but you could you could even interchange

them uh I've just started a charity it's

called the uh communities uh forward

fund or the United power

forward yeah you could basically just

throw it all together and you got you

got your charity name it just has to

sound

good comically suspicious names that's

what I'd have ai looking

for um Social Security Administrations

speaking of them they just said that

they could reduce their own budget by

$800 million per

year now I think there's a ex head of

the secret Social Services who is a

Democrat of course who says uh oh no if

you did that it would only be months

before the entire thing collapsed but I

said to

myself how in the

world is the Social Security

Administration just the administration

not not the payments we're not talking

about the payments that that's a whole

different budget but just the people who

manage the payments how is that so big

that they can cut $800 million out of it

and think it would still work like what

would be

left and doesn't your common sense tell

you that they're way

overstaffed right cuz if you you took

away you know there obviously it's

mostly just data in a computer but how

many special cases are there that you

need that many staff for what is kind of

an automated process because once you've

programmed in what's the current law

okay if you're this age you get this you

know you put it in the rules once you've

done

that uh as as a current recipient of

Social Security I I recently just like

two months ago I think I I uh decided to

turn it on and so they already have all

of my information that I've been paying

forever because they send me reports so

I know that they have it so they have

everything that they need to know about

me and then I fill out some

forms uh and then they know that I want

to get paid they know what to pay me the

computer does no humans need to be

involved and then I get checks which

part of that require a

human Beyond you know setting up the

computers in the first place and I'm

thinking to myself man the only way you

could get to such a large

organization is if you got there sort of

incrementally you know increasing the

budget 10% a year every time you

could but if you were to build this

today from

scratch don't you think it would be six

programmers and

than a big computer

budget like why do you need this many

special cases I don't know maybe it's to

take care of all those people who are

300 years old and collecting checks

according to

Bernie well here's something that's fun

uh John Stewart had offered to interview

Elon Musk but Elon said I got some um

requirements one of the requirements was

it would be unedited

so

unedited um good and I think there was

some other requirement but uh being

unedited I think would be the primary

one and um so it looks like this might

happen because Stuart's agreed to the

conditions um Stuart said uh have think

about his offer meaning unedited I

thought you know hey that's actually how

the uh instit interviews normally air

it's unedited so sure we'd be delighted

and he said he would do it any length of

time which is another thing typically

you wouldn't do on a TV show normally

that there's always that time but this

is a special case so if it if 90 minutes

is the right amount of time they'll do

it 90 minutes if 15 is Right 15 I like

that um but here's what I think about

this this might might

be the best

interview of all

time it has that potential and here's

why

um you you don't have to like John

Stewart um in general you don't have to

like his political

views uh you know you can say what you

want to say about him you could say oh

he's not you know he's a snake in the

grass and he might act reasonable

sometimes but but any minute he could

turn on you whatever you want to say but

here's what I say he as far as I can

tell John Stewart is unwilling to be

stupid in

public I can't watch him privately

probably it's the same but publicly I've

been watching him for a long time and he

doesn't want to act stupid in public and

by that I mean he would not reject

common sense

musk only has Common Sense

only uh the there's probably nobody in

the

world who could do a better job of

saying this is why we're doing it and

this just makes Common

Sense musk is the champion of common

sense I have real reasons here are my

reasons and if you disagree with me I'll

rethink it I like if you have a good

argument I'll rethink it steuart's the

same I believe that steuart if he heard

something he'd never heard before which

is very possible you like an argument

that he just never heard before I think

that he would in real time say okay you

know what that's actually a pretty good

answer and there's

nobody almost nobody in the entire

world that I think is capable of

that and that's a big compliment so it's

a compliment to Showmanship and uh what

I think is public honesty so I think

this could be one of the biggest things

we've ever seen in America because

you're never going to get these two

kinds of personalities sitting down

together uh it just doesn't happen so

the thing about mus is he's not going to

lie and he's going to have a reason for

everything he does and it's going to be

a damn good reason now that doesn't mean

he's never made a mistake

you know I I can't think of one off hand

but humans you know humans make mistakes

and he doesn't say I don't make mistakes

so

musk like John Stewart very unique in

that if John Stuart said in real time

okay but you haven't thought of this or

you haven't thought of that and it was a

good

point I believe you would see um Yan mus

say that's a good point yeah let me

think about that but I think that works

both ways if musk at a good point I

think that Stuart would say okay

actually that's a good point let me

think about it so I've never seen even

the

potential for this much goodness in a

podcast I mean I would I would clear my

schedule to watch this at any length uh

because the uniqueness of the characters

and then the double uniqueness of

putting them together

so I'm yes yes

yes hell yes on this happening I hope it

does could be huge for the

country um Ben chapiro has started a uh

petition to call for the uh pardon of

Derek schauen convicted for killing

George

Floyd

now um I can't say enough about how

impressed I am because you know if you

have things working for you like Ben

chapiro does he's got a good situation

where he's you know respected

commentator um he's got a platform that

looks like it's successful to me and

he's in one of those situations where

you don't take risks this big this is a

big freaking risk to to put your name

you know behind uh the essentially what

would be taking George Floyd from being

a saint down to a more normal situation

and

also um supporting the white guy who got

sent to

Jail uh so this is a big risk but so let

me say this about uh Ben Shapiro this is

brave this is brave it's perfectly timed

oh this is exactly the right time to do

it and it's it's well argued so I've

I've seen his argument it's well argued

and it's absolutely right it's morally

ethically um and in every way that

America cares it's right it's time I'm

all in I'm all

in yeah so I mean I have less to

lose I'm already disgraced so it's not a

big risk for me to say I'm all in but

it's a bigger risk for Ben Shapiro so

all respect to that full

respect um so you probably saw on social

media Chang in the topic um there were

videos of I guess there were 22 Senators

eventually who did what sounded like

identical little videos where it was

just them talking to the camera and they

they each had this little douchebag uh

microphone that doesn't look right when

you're holding it like that and you just

got this little thing in your two little

fingers and you're leaning forward in

your chair and you're talking

passionately and of course the Democrats

are all the theater kids so it all looks

like they were acting but it took about

5 seconds for the internet to say wait a

minute wait a minute you you're not the

only person saying something like that

and then there would be a split screen

and if you watch it developed during the

day in real time it was hilarious

somebody noticed wait a minute there are

two

senators who seem to be doing something

similar and then like an hour later wait

a minute wait a minute it's more than

two I I think there are four of them and

then they show you know the four of them

and they'd be talking at the same time

at pretty much the same

words and then it just kept

increasing until it was like this screen

full of people all talking

at the same time with the same little

message and the same little douchebag uh

microphone and so Elon Musk had posted

that uh he would give a free cyber truck

to whoever could posi positively

identify who wrote it because they were

trying to find the the author who was

behind it but it turns out it was Corey

Booker so Corey Booker organized it and

uh I guess they decided he was the best

they had to try to come up with a social

media strategy because they weren't

happy with their social media strategy

and I guess Chuck Schumer wasn't the

greatest social media leader so they're

like oh we need somebody young and cool

to do our social media so Corey Booker

puts that together which effectively was

all the theater kids doing a play like

what they do

and before I knew who was being behind

it um I decided that it was somebody

either

inexperienced or

young and here's what I picked up this

is sort of a writer trick because for

each of them all 22 of them they had the

same sort of opening

tagline uh that was that ain't true

that's what you just saw so it starts

with a a trump saying he was going to

lower prices on day one and then it

would switch to one of the Senators

saying that ain't true that's what

you just saw I think they may have

bleeped the part or not I don't

know

um so here's the writer's

trick The Writer's trick is this and

maybe it's a communicator's trick as

well you can

swear if you do it

once and it's something that's really

important and you just want to bring it

attention to it or if you're somebody

like Trump who sort of incorporated into

his personality that if he gives a rally

speech he might lay an s bomb on you he

doesn't do

FS uh he but maybe maybe a hell maybe a

damn maybe a you know maybe a maybe an S

so if you use it

judiciously it can be an accent that

works I remember uh several years ago

there was bestelling book I can't

remember it but it had F in the title it

was something F this or I don't know I

forget but it became a best-selling book

and then about a year later I was

walking through a bookstore and there

were all these books with the fword in

the title because they had decided that

maybe what sold that other book was that

had an FW in the title

no no that's not what sold that other

book

no no it probably was a great book and

it had a also a you know attening

getting title but if you take the it's a

great book out of the equation you can't

sell it just because you put an FW in

the title that would be the worst idea

in the world and I don't think the other

books sold sold much they did not become

bestsellers but here if you're going to

do something that you've got 22 Senators

send signing up for you can't put this

artificial swear word in there oh there

it is the subtle art of not giving a f

yeah that thank you that was the

original book and then everybody said oh

it's putting F in the title of my book

that's what will work no nope it was

maybe it was just a good

book um but as soon as I saw that all of

these senators were asked to swear and

it didn't matter what the Senator's

personalities were or if it worked for

them or it was compatible with

their character or their moral or

ethical framing of the world that's just

amateur

time you know anybody who doesn't know

how to use a curse word in

Communications or writing that's amateur

somebody who could use one and get away

with it and make it actually work like

the title of that book that was an

expert that's a great

writer so you could tell right away that

it was amateur work uh I don't know if I

don't know if Cory Booker wrote it I'm

guessing he didn't probably just had

some young

person write it and then the mistake was

to overuse the the sword because why

bother anyway

um watching the Democrats pretend to

understand social media is hilarious

because it used to be that the Democrats

didn't the Democrats sort of control the

youth

vote and now they're so anti- youth I

mean with Pelosi and Schumer and God

that they had to go to Corey Booker to

get their young person and the best he

could come up with was

terrible um so it got it got spotted and

mocked right

away

um and Scott Jennings who you know is

the uh Republican Superstar who appears

on CNN and embarrasses their panel of

idiots every day

um here's how he summed it up he goes

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um voters we need more authenticity in

our politicians Democrats and then he he

points out the this totally artificial

Communications

so the Democrats need more authenticity

and the closest they could come to it

was making 22 people curse the same

way I don't know how you could get

further from the

mark that was impressively

bad meanwhile the hill is the hill had

an article about how Democrats are

looking for an outsider to run for

president I guess they decided that uh

of their many many Democrat politicians

they didn't have any who were worth a

damn so they've got to look for like an

outsider now remember I just told you

the story about somebody put the FW in

the title of a best-selling book so then

all the dumb people said I've got it

it's the fword in the title of the book

so they they copy the wrong thing and

here again They're copying the wrong

thing Trump won as an

outsider but not because he's an

outsider that's not why he won because

everything he does makes more sense than

his compet I he won because he's

incredibly good at communicating he won

because his policies are really really

popular he won because he's really

really smart and he's Brave beyond

anything we've ever seen in a president

fight fight fight so if you take all of

those qualities of trump let's call it

his skill stack from his his knowledge

how to put on a show to knowing how to

get loyalty to knowing how to make it

deal I mean his skill stack is a mile

high there are very few people who have

assembled anything like the number of uh

skills and knowledge sets that Trump has

acquired over his life and he just keeps

adding to it I mean still at his current

age he's adding skills like he's

learning

crypto Trump could probably already talk

better about crypto than most of the

democratic politicians so if you've got

somebody who's AAR learning machine he

has you know no sense of embarrassment

he's Brave Beyond any anything we've

ever seen in that kind of an office uh

can take incredible shame can can fight

through the lawfare the attempted

assassinations I mean come

on this this is a this is Once In A

Thousand-Year person so what did the

Democrats take away from

that here's what they take away from it

huh it's because he's an outsider we'll

get ourselves an outsider that's not

even close to what's going on you just

have one person with this enormous set

of skills that work together really well

that's why he

wins that's it you can't just go get

yourself one of

those you know you would already know

exactly who it was if one of those

people

existed but they're throwing names like

Mark cub and Stephen A Smith and

Federman

and

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um I think that there're completely on

the wrong page they're they're in the

end they're going to come up with

whoever they think does the best job of

pretending to be

authentic I think

that's that's the extent of their

visibility of what's going on huh let's

get an outsider who can pretend to be

authentic okay okay now I don't know if

Democrats can ever uh win with a you

know Mark Cuban or a Federman because if

they look like they're too much you know

white

men I just don't know if it works you

know I think Biden might have been the

last dinosaur to to squeak by in the

Democratic

party

anyway uh one of the people who some

think um NBC has an article about this

uh is that Chris Murphy Democrat Chris

Murphy he's been on TV a lot you've seen

him doing a lot of anti-trump stuff and

he's just all over the place but uh the

thinking is that he's already running a

shadow campaign for president now he

would not be an outsider but he would at

least be a let's say um somewhat skilled

Insider but my question is this why why

do the Democrats have so many people who

look like movie

villains CU Chris Murphy you just look

at his eyes and you say to yourself oh

my

God that's like pure

evil now I'm not saying he is I don't

know one way or the other but he has the

look like if he came into the casting

office and you're looking for the most

evil looking person you could ever hire

for your movie I'm pretty sure he would

get the

job

and I don't really know are there a lot

of

Republicans who look like they could be

movie Evil think of John

Brennan right you know John Brennan has

that

face that is a movie Evil face uh who is

a uh Aliana Presley who's got the shaved

head which she pulls off by the way the

shaved head

and uh she wears the Superman villain

outfits which actually look great on her

if I'm judging her from a fashion and

appearance perspective she's actually

terrific I I'm actually impressed she

does a great job of creating a look but

the net effect of the

look is Superman villain uh yeah I've

just never seen so many people in one

party who could be cast as movie

villains like what what is up with

that meanwhile Red State um article by

Bob Hogue is uh talking about how Chuck

Todd who was on NBC forever um was just

dumping on Biden for being a a bad human

being basically uh and he was speaking

with Steve Schmidt who was one of the

co-founders of the Lincoln project

which I think even Steve Schmidt had to

get out of that because it was just so

it was like living in a sphincter he had

to get get away but here's what Chuck

Todd said about

Biden of course it's too little too late

but it's fun to talk about um he goes I

have to tell you something about Joe

Biden there's this mythology about Joe

Biden that the man cared so much it's

all bull

um and then Todd said that

Biden had created this myth over his

40-year career that he was an incredible

Family

Man and instead what he really was was a

craven political animal that was

desperate uh that considered a run for

president every four years he was

eligible now I think part of the uh part

of the complaint was he had some family

issues some addicts in the family and

the thinking was that his family needed

him more than the the country maybe but

uh it's interesting to say to watch

Chuck Todd talk that way about Biden and

I think what you're going to find is

that every day that goes by will be

another Democrat saying okay Biden was

just the worst train wreck in the

history he was never good behind closed

doors he was a monster you're just going

to hear the worst things and it's just

beginning it's going to get

worse meanwhile and I believe this

Bloomberg's reporting that the Pentagon

denied a

report um that there was a halt in cyber

operations versus Russia now remember I

talked about this uh maybe yesterday and

I was thinking that maybe if it were

true that it was just offensive

operations and that it might have been a

mutual thing and maybe it was a trust

building thing with Russia to see if we

can get to a bigger deal but it's more

likely since uh I guess secretary P

heg didn't didn't do it so he I think

heg Seth denied that there was any

change in

cyber versus

Russia so if heg Seth denies it I'm a

I'm going to believe him and it didn't

really I guess the report didn't have

the kind of backing that you think so

I'm going to agree with Bloomberg on

this I think that was fake

news um

so anyway in other news RFK Jr um he's

been trying to he wants to eliminate a

whole bunch of harmful additives and

food the big reason that you might not

want to at the moment and this is going

to be tough a tough balance is that

removing food additives for

food might make them more expensive

which seems counterintuitive right you'd

think well if we don't have to add all

these chemicals

we can save money on all these chemicals

but they must have something to do with

preserving food longer something like

that uh maybe taste better I don't know

but uh the uh the thing that is the

major driver of all these chemicals and

your food this is based on the story in

the LA Times is that it's the way we

keep the food cost down so if your

Administration the trumpet admin

Administration has promised that food

prices will be going down at the same

time you've got the make America healthy

again efforts and RFK Jr looking to get

rid of these additives which would make

food prices potentially go up although

I'm not 100% sure that's true but that's

what's being reported at the moment

so I wonder if there's any Middle Ground

there

because there are people like me who

would certainly pay more to have fewer

chemicals and maybe you could let the

the the market decide so instead

of uh let's say let's say instead of

making everybody get rid of

everything what if you said uh we want

to

encourage people who are in the same

Market to you know at least have an

option

where you don't have the chemicals and

then the people can choose and if enough

people choose the ones that's a little

bit more expensive but doesn't have the

health problems well then the market

corrects and then then that becomes the

you know less expensive thing over time

um but I wonder if there's a way to

solve that because it seems like there's

a direct conflict between making the

food safer and making it less

expensive here's a little update on a

story that interests me more than maybe

most of you but uh do you remember the

hockey stick um temperature calculations

for climate change and Michael man was

the um credited as the the person who

came up with that and the idea was that

temperatures would increase over time

but that would be a point where the

increase would become uh multiplied so

it it would go slow slow slow and then

Wham and it would go straight up like a

hockey stick

well uh Mark Stein writing for the

publication uh the publication National

Review um ended up in the lawsuit

because uh I guess Stein was criticizing

the hockey stick data and Michael man

wanted to you know basically establish

it as as legitimate and push back

against critics so there was a lawsuit

so Michael man sued and um I may get I

may be getting some of the facts wrong

here because the there are a couple of

it looks like maybe whatever Mark Stein

did might have been separate but related

to the National Review so it looked like

there might have been two legal actions

one against the publication and one

against the author but um there's been

some movement now it's 13 years later

13 years later and a judge has reduced

the $1 million defamation

judgment uh which man had won they

reduced it from a million do to

$5,000 now there's an article by Greg

Piper in just the news so I'll I'll

recommend you to that so look for just

the news and look for the article by

Greg Piper and you'll you'll get the

correct version of this I think I'm

butchering a little bit

but um on top of

that um I think the that separately the

National Review had uh been in court for

the same reason and got to uh it ended

in a summary judgment in National

reviews favor so the National Review

ended up uh getting a judgment in which

they would be paid um half a million

dollars in legal fees so I'm not

positive but do does this mean so I get

I guess I have a question as much as a

statement uh does this mean that Michael

man the scientist the one who created

the hockey stick thing and I believe was

the one who kicked off the lawsuits does

that mean that instead of winning a

million he got

5,000 and in the process also had to pay

half a million to the other

side which would suggest he came out way

behind even though he

won so you sort of won a little

bit but it looks like it became a

financial nightmare

basically so um I guess I could use some

factchecking on that

but 13 years A lot has changed or let me

put it this way um the whole our view of

climate change is about ready to change

so look for big changes in that domain

there's a study Sam Jones is writing in

the Washington Post that uh science has

shown there's a

link

um between swearing and pain

tolerance and that people who swear when

they're in pain like you you know you

hit your thumb with a hammer or

something that the swearing decreases

the

pain now this is another one of those

situations where you could have just

asked me you didn't really have to study

it just ask

me um yeah squaring definitely helps

with pain don't know why there's a story

about a Florida

man who swallowed a uh

$760,000 diamond from Tiffany's so he

went to Tiffany's and must have grabbed

a diamond and swallowed it and so when

the police got there you he asked if

he'd be charged for what's in his

stomach and uh I don't know the legal

ins and outs of this but um I think it

depends if it was a dutyfree

store anybody no

dutyfree all right I'll just leave that

with

you meanwhile was the Wall Street

Journal is reporting that uh Israel is

trying to neutralize what security

officials see as a turkish-backed

islamist threat trying to unify Syria to

which I say maybe I don't understand

anything about the world but why would

turkey want

to put a bunch of turkish-backed radical

islamist unifying Syria does that look

like something that would work out for

them in the long run

that's very suspicious anyway I just

don't know how that could possibly work

but hey all right my last story

scientists are trying to revive the

woolly mammoths they're they're going to

trying to find a way to uh take some

woolly mammoth DNA that they have and

put it in some kind of a I don't know

Asian elephant and turn it into a woolly

mammoth in the future now uh they've

made some progress cuz they've turned

they've created a woolly

mice that's right they took regular mice

and they made them woolly with woolly

mammoth jeans of some sort so if you'd

like a woolly Mouse now talk about a

dangerous

experiment what would happen if you know

the the mouse stayed the same size as

the mouse it was just woolly but what if

they'd gotten that just a little bit

wrong wouldn't you have an elephant

sized

Mouse

now that's just what I need that's what

I need an elephant siiz

Mouse what could go wrong all right

ladies and gentlemen that's what I've

got for you today thanks for joining I

know we went long I got stuff to do I'm

going to say hi to the uh people on

locals and uh the rest of you thanks for

joining I'll see you tomorrow tomorrow

same time same

place locals I'll see you privately here

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